TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forster,Walter Otto
TI  - Zion on the Mississippi: the settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri 1839-1841 
U1  - 284.1322 Forrester 
PY  - 1953///
CY  - Saint Louis, MI.
PB  - Concordia Publishing House
KW  - Stephan, Martin,
KW  - Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
KW  - History
KW  - Lutherans
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Germans
N1  - An expansion and revision of "the study ... originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis."; An expansion and revision of "the study...originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis."; Bibliography: pages 584-594; European background -- Rise of Stephanism in Saxony, 1810-1837 -- Transformation of Stephanism into separatism -- Development of the emigration idea in Stephanite separatism -- Planning an American Zion, 1837-1838 -- Organization of the Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft -- Parting and departing -- The voyage from Bremerhaven to St. Louis, 1838-39 -- The Saxons and their new home -- The forerunners of the Forty-Eighters in the West -- Establishing the Episcopacy -- First contact with religious conditions in the West -- Problems of communal living in St. Louis -- Founding the Perry County Colony -- Discrediting Stephan's leadership -- Stephan's expulsion from the Gesellschaft -- Retrenchment and reappraisal -- Disorganization and reorganization, 1839-1841 -- Zion re-defined
ER  -